I would use #1: There was a lot of hair in the shower ... and skip tray, at least for AE. I think it stands to reason that the hair would be on the shower floor, probably near the drain, without having to specify further ... just saying

I'm having a hard time imagining the circumstances in which anyone would ever say a lot of hairs. Is it quite a few different, individual hairs, perhaps from different sources, or just unidiomatic? Do any other BE speakers support #4? Maybe too much Denglish influence?

Contrast

1) finding or removing hair from the sink/shower/drain (whether some, a lot, enough to notice (more than a couple of individual strands), whatever). You're not counting them, sorting them into categories, or noting their individual characteristics, are you?

and

2) removing/brushing a few hairs from one's lapel or, maybe, one's spouse finding a few hairs (i.e., strands of hair) of the wrong color on her pillow when she returns from a trip.

As to the OP learning that it's most often 'hair' in English -- well, s/he did write 'hair'.

'A lot of hair' suggests to me quite a large quantity:

E.g. 'There was a lot of hair on the floor' -- at the hairdresser's, when several people have had their hair cut and nobody has swept the floor.

In the shower, it suggests to me that there is quite an accumulation of hair, possibly threatening to block the outflow (or whatever you call it). This may or may not be the case here.

'A lot of hairs': in the hotel, you expect the basin, shower cubicle, etc. to be really clean. But there are hairs -- and not just one or two, but quite a number of them, which in these circumstances can be considered 'a lot'.

So I would say it depends on exactly what you mean.

#10 Yes, one could also say 'lots'. 'Different' only if they seemed to be from several different people(!).

I can't believe I'm spending all this time on a Saturday morning writing about hair/s in a shower! :-)

In AE we would say 'on the floor of the shower / tub,' or just 'in the shower.'

I don't think I would say 'a lot of hairs,' but if there were only a few, which seems likely unless someone was shaving their head or something, I might indeed say 'There were (some) hairs in the shower.'

To me '(a lot of) hair in the shower' is relatively unlikely, unless the hotel or whatever is incredibly dirty.

(A lot of hair in the drain, on the other hand, can happen in the best of houses ... \-: )

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